Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Kantorei: The Singing Boys of Rockford, IL is a musical education nonprofit serving boys between the ages of 6 to 18. The participants learn the foundations of choir singing, such as posture and breathing, vocal technique, and tone. This post was written by Ginny Mies, senior content curator at TechSoup. Images: Kantorei.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. And second, what techniques can help us find more? Develop a "question of interest" that relates to your content. What kinds of questions do you seek, and what techniques do you use to find them?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. Sheet music is a beautiful analogy for this.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

The problem was not one of content but one of form. The solution is in focusing on changing form more than content. Interpretative techniques. Consider the experiments at the New World Symphony in Miami, where they are performing classical orchestral music for outdoor "wallcasts" that include projections and visual content.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. When the music video was not focused on Mexican culture, no such change occurred. But how will we know if we are actually achieving our goals? Direct questioning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Click To Play I've been exploring about how a teacher or parent might seek out video blog content that is educational for kids not yet ready to mix their own. Over at blip.tv, I found the above "music video" by Steve Garfield. What I like about it: I like the technique of photo stills and music and the use of pans (hmm.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

During the hour-long chat on Twitter, nonprofit video experts and audience shared thoughts on what makes powerful videos, technical aspects of creating video that leads to action, and techniques to ensure a video gets shared. Video descriptions also give viewers content and optimize the video for search engines.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

MUSIC: Sleepy Eyed Thoughts by Bernardus. So the message here is that it’s really time to start cultivating supporters in your database who are active on social media to do one thing and that is to share your campaign content and your message to their social networks. You are asking them to share your content on their social network.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Social Capital 2019 is a content-rich, invitation-only conference bringing together the brightest nonprofit and corporate minds for a candid exchange on growing strategic partnerships. The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences + Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

You know a conference is going to be a different experience when you walk into the conference area and there is harpist playing beautiful meditative music that melts away as the chimes and bells ring to signal the beginning of the conference. Watch live streaming video from wisdom2conf at livestream.com.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Social Capital 2018 is a content-rich, invitation-only conference bringing together the brightest nonprofit and corporate minds for a candid exchange on growing strategic partnerships. The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences + Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Key Report #3: Content Popularity It's essential to view the list of Top 10 (or 15) most popular pages on your site. "Knowing what content is being consumed can lead you to so many insights," Kaushik says. you won't get it unless you were a music conservatory student like me. Does this correspond to your expectations?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2009

Maybe it's a learning program for people who want further content knowledge, or perhaps an activity-based program where people make music together or blow glass or build robots. Phil's technique wasn't complex. Is my observation a personal quirk or a familiar story?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

This one records a message or music. They are still building out the content on the site and there is a growing list of nonprofit recipients. Last week I blogged about an Ipod/Toilet paper holder over at Netsquared. So, somehow I'm stuck on the theme of toilet paper holders as gifts. And then goes on describe the features.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

What are the techniques for conversational weaving? I pitched my Open Content game for Nonprofits. After a lunch of pizza (which accelerated my tiredness), I lead a very small group informal discussion on Open Content. How to prepare the next generation of moderators in OS communities? or similar) licensing.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2016

This chapter explores the difference between connecting with new people by building new doors vs. connecting with new people by changing the content of the room. Remember New World Symphony, the Miami orchestra that used night club marketing techniques to attract young urbanites to classical music?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I wanted to use more video examples, but only selected one that was more of a music video in case the audio didn't work. I had too much content. I knew I had too content. My blog commenters told me I had too much content in my initial draft. " In the comments, a few folks answered -- and I read the responses."You

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2007

We want the lights to go down, the music to swell, and the experience to sweep us away. Rather than “liberating” people to the whole virtual world, we constrain them to a world of directed content and clear goals. What other games or non-gaming techniques could be used to usher museum “newbies” across the museum threshold?

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Gyrus

APRIL 28, 2016

Organizations have already been using videos for onboarding, product training and with the availability of new tools and techniques, they can also use it in their formal training programs without worrying about the cost. One can even find video making application on mobile devices for creating a short and engaging video.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This is a long post focused on strategic uses of listening rather than specific techniques. For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. Are they learning and sharing what you hoped?

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Social Capital 2016 is a content-rich, invitation-only conference bringing together the brightest nonprofit and corporate minds for a candid exchange on growing strategic partnerships. The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences + Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. Through inspiring keynotes, innovative talks, educational breakouts, hands-on lessons, and tons of networking, you will learn how the INBOUND experience, and especially our content, is truly remarkable. Mexico / SOLD OUT. State/Local.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Recently the language difference jumped out at me while advising an emerging nonprofit on tools and techniques for client management software. at 4:30 pm Michelle: I wonder what you think of David G’s framing of the content model issue. I very much look forward to your re-emergence from the IT wilderness! 5 Anonymous 04.14.07

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2011

It is an incredible narrative work that incorporates text, music, videos, and images into a lightly interactive, utterly engrossing digital story. While I appreciate the benefits of a straight narrative, in this case, I think the content could have been just as powerfully presented in a hub and spoke model with freer user navigation.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2007

Broun talked about SAAM's initiatives both in the museum and on the web to open up their content base for visitors to use in their own ways. To museum ears, this is fairly blasphemous--the idea that people want to use our content, not our exhibits. content providers. Professionals aggregate content for maximum findability.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

We’ve collaborated on some content. And then you may have something like scholarship funds, or the music fund, or something like that. So if people haven’t given it a number of years or what have you, I’m a fan of, “Let’s try to re-engage them and try to use some techniques around that.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Julia Campbell will provide a framework for evaluating the best platforms for your unique organization, as well as ideas for creating great social media content your audience will love. Okay, ephemeral disappearing content. Okay, ephemeral disappearing content. Full Transcript: Steven: All right, Julia, I got 2:00 Eastern.

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